Abstract Figurative Sculpture by Alfredo Burlini: Adam & Eve

The first couple, reduced to one bright outline.

Adam & Eve is an abstract figurative sculpture by Alfredo Burlini (1910 – 2006), in bronze with an acrylic and walnut base. The story of the first man and woman has given Western artists a subject for centuries, and modern sculptors found they could tell it with very little. Polished to a high golden shine, the bronze forms a tall open loop enclosing a second slender shape. Facial profiles emerge along one edge. The dark square base keeps everything upright. 21 inches high.

The apple has been left out. Nobody seems to miss it.